Sentences with phrase «creating public health risks»

But microbes, too, may upset the ecological balance at their destination, in addition to creating public health risks.

Behaviors that create problems for you or your pet, impact quality of life, create a public health risk, or cause distress for your pet should be evaluated.

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The mass media have a powerful impact on public perceptions of health issues.1 Headline health scares have a measurable effect on behaviour, and routine coverage influences people's assessments of personal risk, utilisation of health services, and views on public policy.2 - 7 The media not only provide information but also help to create or reinforce ideas about what is common sense or normal.

The Safe Sleep for Your Baby video by the Public Health Agency of Canada provides steps to create a safe sleep environment for your baby and lower the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS.

By educating both the public and health care professionals regarding the risks of exposure to specific medications for mothers and babies, the center aims to reduce the number of birth defects and dangerous exposures in breastfeeding as well as create healthy breastfeeding relationships.

«If Obamacare is done away with completely, and they do not create a substitute to balance that, there's a risk that over 900,000 Puerto Ricans will lose their access to public health care,» he said.

«I want a provision that if we find that we have created a system that poses a public safety risk or public health risk, that we can stop the sale of marijuana,» Cuomo added.

To reduce discrimination against people with HIV and to try and stop it spreading, activists and many in the public health establishment tried to create a sense of shared risk: the mantra was «Anyone can get HIV».

Combined, these models give public health and governmental officials vital climate information needed to create early warning systems — systems that can alert the public to the risk for disease and allow public health officials to mobilize resources and enact mosquito control programs and surveillance ahead of peak season.

As New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg prepares to leave office, a commentary by a leading bioethicist analyzes his controversial public health policies and concludes that he is an urban innovator who created a new paradigm of public health, «reaching beyond infectious diseases to upstream risk factors in everyday life and the human habitat.»

While in the public health realm, Australia's political decisiveness has led the world on regulating the tobacco industry and minimising health risks, in regards to climate change, political influence has created doubt that likely enhances the risks of future extremes.

While natural gas offers clear advantages over coal, over-relying on it for electricity creates serious economic and public health risks for consumers and states and fails to provide a long - term solution to climate change.

We also include within the definition an organized system of health care in which more than one covered entity participates, and in which the participating covered entities hold themselves out to the public as participating in a joint arrangement, and in which the joint activities of the participating covered entities include at least one of the following: utilization review, in which health care decisions by participating covered entities are reviewed by other participating covered entities or by a third party on their behalf; quality assessment and improvement activities, in which treatment provided by participating covered entities is assessed by other participating covered entities or by a third party on their behalf; or payment activities, if the financial risk for delivering health care is shared in whole or in part by participating covered entities through the joint arrangement and if protected health information created or received by a covered entity is reviewed by other participating covered entities or by a third party on their behalf for the purpose of administering the sharing of financial risk.